Shanduka-Aggreko National Supporter of the 2010 FIFA World
Cuptm
South America, March 2010
Aggreko plc is pleased to announce
that, along with its joint venture partner Shanduka Group, it has
signed a contract to provide temporary power and temperature
control for broadcast and technical services for the 2010 FIFA
World Cup in South Africa.
The contract involves providing
broadcasting power in all 10 World Cup Stadium Venues, the
International Broadcast Centre (IBC) and FIFA headquarters, as well
as temperature control at the IBC. This will support the
broadcasting of the 64 matches of the competition to over 3 billion
people world-wide. The estimated value of the contract is £30
million, and will involve the installation of some 300 kilometers
of cable and 30 megawatts of generating capacity.
Shanduka Group is a leading African
investment holding company, and has formed an unincorporated
joint-venture with Aggreko to execute the World Cup contract. Both
companies worked together to supply temporary power to the FIFA
2009 Confederations Cup in South Africa.
Aggreko has
customers in 20 countries in Africa and is providing over 1,000
megawatts of temporary power on the continent.
Rupert Soames, Chief Executive of
Aggreko, said: “Having recently supplied temporarypower to both the
Vancouver Winter Olympics and last year’s Confederations Cup
in South Africa, we are delighted to have been selected by the 2010
FIFA World Cup Organising Committee to secure their broadcast
power. This underscores our position as the leading supplier of
power and temperature control to major sporting events
worldwide.”